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who wants to see a 420 light medical grow?

dmt

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Wow DMT, I'm impressed. We need to teach a class: "Ethics In Growing"... lol Too many "caregivers" just looking to make a quick buck. They don't want to take the time to learn the plant and turn out quality medicine. At the same time, they want to slap a $400 price tag on every zip... right... Anyway, good to see other young, educated growers...

well, as you can see, class is in session lol.....d
 

dmt

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for this specific project we are using "advance" brand from phillips i beleiev, let me double check heading there in 30 min, d
 

Yes4Prop215

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if i was making 30G's a day i would probably slow down too..

haha

a true gentleman

i think he means 30grams of whatever drug he needs.....30 grand a day is some super mogul shit. cropping 15#s every day....is that even possible off 420 lights....if you crop 10 lights every day you need like 600-900 lights somewhere in there.
 

highonmt

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i get them for super cheap from china, and they are reliable. ijust set up a 24 lighter with 600w digis(my fave btw) and 4 already have calved
out by the end of the first crop. i think digis are still in their youth and havent matured into a 100% reliable product. we get maybe 1 ballast per 100 of the old school cord n coil that malfunctions.

another thing too is sometimes we get used equipment donated, and try our best to use it everywhere, so that is arbirtray. we cant risk a 5% failure rate over 420 bulbs. the work alone to return, reoerder and re install is a superfulous waste of time, energy and resources, d

Ya they may cost less to run but we already sent back 6 out of 50 dual 600 digi ballasts.
Our power supply steered out choice tho. I have never found a source for magnetic growlight ballasts in 208v around here Any one know a source. also do you have a link to the Chinese company you use.
Thanks
HM
 
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Durdy

Amazed, I feel lazy now hahaha, I'll blame it on being young and in school full time :violin:
 

lokes

~Pollinator~
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I'm very impressed with the attention to detail and magnitude of this grow. It's a growers dream.
I'm even more impressed that there are still compassionate growers out there.
Bravo DMT, can't wait to see some flowers on your gals.
Best of Luck!
 

dmt

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so this is the 17.5 ton a/c for the veg room.

there are 6 buckets for a total of 1400 amps @ 600v.

a couple main switches and the meter, d
 

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dmt

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i had a pow wow with the plumbers today for my visit. gona have 2 inch pvc main line, with 1 inch thruhulls off the buckets for the feed cycles. im hoping we can flood and drain 50 5 gal pails in under 10 minutes as i prefer the shortest irrigation possible.

i will detail as i go with pics as i dont wanna get ahead of myself. the 2 bloom rooms and veg room are all upstairs, which means gravity will drain the 3 rooms, gotta love it, d
 

Zendo

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6000 views and not even a rooted plant in site!!This thread is already epic..

It reminds me almost exactly like my current grow, just 417 more lights than I have....

Id wish you luck on your grow DMT, but i've seen you around, and know you don't need it.

I can't stop thinking about trimming this room....

respect for your skills, and philosophy.
 

Liam

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Sigh... while the Vietnamese that rule Vancouver and area haven't murdered any medical growers, they routinely rob them. I'm sorry but if you think the Viets are gonna sit on their butts while you set up massive medical grows, you are insane.

I myself live in total fear of them... for good reason, if you get too big, they find you, they find your family, and then they enslave you. The RCMP do not give two shits and a fuck about medical growers, they tip off the Viets even. Having to change your name and start your whole life over isn't fun, altho barely managing to avoid death does invigorate your will to live. But the paranoia isn't fun, knowing how easy a target anyone is to those with no fear of the law.

They own BC hydro employees, they know who's using electricity, they know every single medical grower and their setup location due to Canadas incompetent privacy protection. They browse ICMAG, they know about you now... bravo.

I'd rather piss in a Hell's Angels face, than give a Viet a funny look, because I like living.

Good luck with the co-op, don't skimp on the security!
 
My god, was that 1400 Amp service put in just for this operation?

Last time I installed a service that huge, it was for industrial plant that welded military tanks and rocket parts.
840k/hr... do you realize your probably using the entire capacity of a power plant somewhere..
 

dmt

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liam, you should learn to stop your internal dialog, or forever be enslaved by the tyranical chatter.

next time get an alarm, some cameras and a panic button as me and all my members and clients have, d
 

VagPuncher

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Listen to Liam fear monger in this thread.

This isn't DMT's first run this big and they're still rolling, witch out any hitches.

D, you think you'll have any spaces to throw in those San Fernando D and Sour OG cut I got?

Edit: Liam, if you go back and read, you'll realize that I actually work for the federal government. All my superiors know what I do and have no issues about it.

One thing cops hate is when people mess with their own. One call and I could ruin any Viet's life and all his families and have all of them deported. It's not how hard you play the game, it's how smart you play the game.
 

Liam

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Oh I had an alarm system, unfortunately when they cut the power to your house, they don't work. Although power-loss alarm and backup power isn't such a bad idea, it really never occurred to me since BC Hyrdo is quite stable. Hell, I didn't even imagine that waking up with half a dozen Viets with guns in my bedroom was possible. Honestly, telling them where my grow was saved my life, I'm pretty sure blowing a whistle is only going to piss them off.

Ripping grows is an INDUSTRY, they routinely do it, doesn't matter how much security they have, this is their PROFESSION, and the BC courts do not prosecute rippers. Most of my equipment I buy now is from rippers... altho my paranoia makes me inspect everything for tracking devices that I get from them.


Dealing with the Viets wouldn't be so bad if they were just one group, and not dozens of fiefdoms growing and ripping grows while armed to the teeth. All I'm saying is stay the F out of BC if you want to succeed, Ontario needs big co-ops more anyhow, and the Hells Angels are pussycats.
 
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